The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-12
WESTERN.

Dan Moriarty has been indicted al
st Louis for being accessory after the fact to
the express robbery. W. W. Haight, who
planned the crime, says Fotherngham, the
messenger, is innocent of all charges brought
against him. Haght says that he planned and
proposed the robbery to Wittrock that Witt
rock became enthusiastic over the plan and
thereafter took the affair into his hands, and
he (HaighD heard nothing more of him until
he read an account of the robbery in the
papers. Soon after that Wttrock sent him
$1,000 by Oscar Cook and summoned him to
Leavenworth. There Wittrock gave him SIC, 600
more. He says it was he who forced Mr.
Damsels signature to the pass which was pre-
scented to Fotheringham and had the Adams
Express letter-heads and envelopes printed
Wittrock has made statement to the effect
that he specially stipulated with the detectives
that they must lift the mortgage of his moth
er's house before he would ~turn up any Of the
stolen money" This he said they promised
to do, and added that it was done when they
went out to Leavenworth, aud thus his chief
object III robbing the express company was
accomplished. The mortgage was for 81, 700
The wholesale millinery house of
Thompson, Stewart & Co., in Cincinnati, whose
debts amount to $4,000, has made an assign
ment
The foundry of Z. p. Allis & Co. s
Reliance Machine Works at Milwaukee Wis,
was destroyed by fire, entailipg loss of
$4,000
A man named Cakes created dis
turhappa or l. 4
house near Eldorado Springs Mo-, the other
night, and when farmer named Clark tried
to quiet him Cakes cut Clark's throat from ear
to ear The murderer is under arrest
dynamite cartridge was exploded
under the Suffer street cable track at san
Francisco, the defamation shaking buildings
shattering glass, and terrifying people living
in the Reighborhoed The loss to the railway
company is heavy.
George Keck, for many years assist
ant superintendent of the infrmary at Akron,
Ohio, has been arrested for criminal intimacy |
with an insane inmate. He retaliates by a |
statement that the bodies Of deceased paupers |
are regularly sold to q medical college in |
Cleveland
A gas explosion in the Andrews
Block, at Youngstown Ohio, caused fire
which destroyed half dozen buildings, in
GLIDING the First Baptist Church One man
was badly burned, and another persisted in
the flames. The loss is about sl25, 600
Isaac W. Sprague, long known as the
living skeleton, died in Chicago last week.
Several years ago he sold his body to the Har-
ward Medical College, and when he died that
took possession of the corpse.
Sprague was 46 years old when ne died and
weighed IS pounds.
A Kankakee County Gll.) farmer
lost four children within five days from dph
iberia
David Rothschild & Sons, of Cincin-
natl, Chicago, and Kansas City, have made an
assignment
The bail of Fotheringham, the al
eyed accomplice of Wittrock, was reduced
rom So, OO0 to s1,6 0 at st Louis.
The Northern Pacific machine, boiler.
md blacksmith shops at Fargo, Dakota. were
burned Three locomotives and number of
machines were destroyed The loss
8 estimated at from $50, 00) to 100000
A man claiming to be the perpetra-
or of the recent dynamite outrage on cable {
Dad in San Francisco has written 10 a news
'aper in that city that the Response ble par
les are members of al organization formed
n Chicago directly after the Haymarket OK
,losion.
Some genuine Manitoba weather was
xperienced in sections of the West and
northwest last week AT st Cloud and Ait
in, Mimi, the thermometer registered GO de- \
egrees below zero, at Albert Lea 40, at Bis
,arck 80, at Miles City, Mont, 30 Through c
ut Michigan the temperature was 90 to % de- \
rees below zero.
The Attorney General of Ohio has
rought suits in ejectment against squatters
n canal property in Akron, valued at =.
100000 =